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Peer reviewedMarkovits, Henry; Vachon, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Studied high school and university students' use of mental representations in reasoning, and the developmental progression of their reasoning with concrete and abstract content. Reasoning was more difficult with abstract content. Abstract problems followed by concrete ones led to reduced concrete problem performance for high schoolers but not for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Groups, College Students, Foreign Countries
